The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
Itoms Of Interest to tho I%ntelligencer'
Farmer Readers,

Itoms Of Interest to tho Intelligencer's
8 Farmer Readers.
There Ia in this country, according to
the Government Statistical Bureau report,
44.6l2,s36 head Of hogs, breeding animals
and young pigs.
The ant 10 thought to be m enemy Of
many injurious insects, particularly plant
lice, which are so often destructive 10 thu
foliage Of apple trees.
Give the cattle, sheep and hogs a m css
Of sliced pumpkins once a day, as pump.
kins serve as an agreeable variety with
the usual dry food.
Do not be economical with the bedding
material. There should be enough Ia
completely absorb all the liquids, as they
are worth more than the bedding ma.
terial.
In filling walls with sawduat, whether
Tor silos, ice.houaes or root-bine, tho saw.
duDt should DO dry and we'll packed down,
or 1t will shrink and settle and leave
empty spaces.
One pound Of hay Lost per day land on
many farms there are %several) to each
animal, the waste will amount to two tons
to every twenty-five head OF cattle in the
foddering season.
The estimate is usually made that q
Leghorn or Hamburg cock may be mated
with fifteen hens Wyandotte, Plymouth
Rock, Houdan or Langshan with Twelve;
Q Minorca with fourteen, and a Brahms or
Cochin with ten.
An experienced dairyman says he would
prefer to spend all the proceeds OF the
dairy Tor feed during, say, February,
March and April, and look to the balance
OF the year Tor profits, than to slack up on
feed, ever with dry cows.
In mountainous sections, where sheep
cannot thrive, it is claimed that tho keep.
ing OF goats oan be made profitable, espe.
cially Tor their skins. The goat can pick
up its subsistence and find food where
other animals would stsrve.
Old leather contains q considerable per.
centage Of ammonia compounds, which,
though eaid to DO insoluhle, are, in fact.
very nlowly soluble. A good way 10 dis.
dispose Of old boots, therefore, ia to bury
them at the foot OF an gpple tree.
Bone Is one Of the best substances that
can be fed to the hens. Ground or broken
the bone is highly relished. It not only
contains lime for shells but also ri!.oaon
and the phosphates. It should bs kept
before the hens, in boxes. all the time.
The Holsteiu COW Boukye, owned by ],
L. Stone, Wavsrly, Pa, has just COM
pleted a years record, and gave upon the
last day sixty pounds Of railk, sithough
three months Ia cali. Her performance is
2l,679 pounds eight ounces Of milk within
the year.
DR.. Salmon says there arc two conta.
glous diseases known as hog cholers-one
affecting the bowels, the other the lungs.
The one 10 the genuine hog cholera, the
other the swine plague. It is possible for
an animal to have both diseases ct the
same time.
tits suggested that as the price Of wheat
is but little greater than that OF corn land
sometimes lover it should be used as
stock food. It contains more nitrogen,
and is much cheaper in proportion to the
amount Of nutrition as compared with
corn.
Save all the small sweet potatoes for the
pigs. Nothing will fatten a pig so quickly
as sweet potatoes, and they are very cheap
when only tho 1ulls are used. They
should not be fed to laying hons, but
are excellent for poultry intended Tor
market.
The usual rule ia to save the milk at
the end Of the fifth to tho seventh day
after calying. No fixed date can be given,
There should be no sign OF feverishnees or
inflammation about the udder, and tho
peculiar milk OF birth known as colust1um
should have entirely passed away.
One Of the beet meant Of removing lice
from fowls ia to make them do 1t them
selves, by having a lot OF dry earth where
they can dust themselves whenever they
feel like 1t, having first sprinkled tho earth
with diluted carbolic acid. This acid
proves too much for the lice, and they
leave the premises at once, or it causes
them to give up the ghoHt.
Fowls are machines to produce eggs and
flesh, and We might as we'll expect cloth
from O factory that has no wool or cotton
as to expect eggs from hens not supported
with food. Liberal feeding means liberal
profits neglect means loss Of what you do
give them. AS a rule, feed we'll or kill
the flock. This should be the rule, for
the results are as sure to follow as day is
sure to follow sunrise.
When the wool buyer comes round the
farmer Wishes he had looked after his
sheep a little more closely, cut down the
bur and brier bushes and removed the
tsgo in the spring. A dirty isecs weighs
moro, but the buyer ia keen-sighted, and
is sure to deduct from the price paid fol
good clean wool more than enough to
make up for the extra weight. Bear this
lesson in mind, and keep the wool clean
next year.
Cows, 1t allowed to fall Of in their flow
Of milk. will not usually regain 1t. If the
pastures are deficient supplement them
With fodder, corn and rations OF corn meal,
ground oats and bran. I'm the cooler dsys
Of this month, and thoss that follow, e1.
cellent butter may be made, equal to thai
made In June. Cows, to .cslve In winter
should be dried,of about two months be-
tore'their time, and bs well fed while dry,
l-AgricuO4riM. a3
The use OF commercial fertilizers is in
creaeing, and as farmers become better &C
quainted with the demands of their soil
and crops they will be able more wisely
to Eelect the fertilizer best suited To thei
needs. Neither the farmer nor the chem
ist alone can always tell Whist brand o
fertilizer will best meet the case. Thit
must be discovered by the farmers maxim
careful tests under the light given b.
teachings of the chemists.
Farmers and gardeners could,very profit
ably spend more time visiting market,
and learning how to prepare ard pacl
their produce 80 as to get the best prices
Especially true Ia this OF vepetahjas IJrnit